The way back for Nevada

Incisive as always, Steve argues that a national "house-cleaning" likely represents Nevada's only path back to economic prosperity.An excerpt:

Recovery for Nevada's economy - so dependent on recreational tourism - clearly requires a return of prosperity to the underlying American economy.

Unfortunately, the policies embraced by the Obama administration are precisely those that will ensure a zombie U.S. economy for many years to come.

This observation comes from well-informed individuals at all points on the political spectrum. Free-market economists and big-government regulators alike point out how the Geithner-Summers-Obama "recovery" plan is actually designed to ignore the requirements of recovery and instead just shovel taxpayer dollars into walking-dead banks.

Andy Matthews is the president of NPRI and has been with the Institute since February 2007. Andy is the fourth president in NPRI's history. He joined NPRI in February 2007 as its communications director and became a vice president at the Institute in 2008.